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Jul 14, 2021
On July 9 the Ohio Woodland Stewards (OWS) Program headed back to the real forest for a day of outdoor learning.
Meeting on the Ohio State Mansfield campus participants embarked on a day of exploration - observing and learning about wildlife habitat needs and challenges, how to identify different trees, and various woodland issues with an emphasis on invasive species.
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May 19, 2021
This news item was originally published on the SENR website in August 2020.
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Learn about a tool to help to track and report invasive species in this video with OSU Extension specialists in forestry, horticulture, wildlife, and aquatic ecology.
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Jan 4, 2018
The latest edition of the Ohio Woodlands, Water, and Wildlife Newsletter is available on-line. Learn about the importance of oaks for wildlife and the forest products industry, a new resource for Ohio woodland owners, meet your new natural resource economist and discover the busyness of beaver.
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Jul 2, 2017
So you want to know your trees. On July 7, a class offered at The Ohio State University’s Mansfield campus will help you. Called Name That Tree, the class will show you how to identify Ohio trees using common traits like their leaves. About half the class time will be spent outdoors practicing. The 600-acre campus is full of trees. Knowing how to identify trees can help you take care of them, said instructor Kathy Smith. Smith heads Ohio State’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program, the class’s sponsor. Every tree species has different care needs, she said. The class is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting in 100 Ovalwood Hall at 1760 University Drive on the campus.
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Jun 8, 2017
A June 20 tour in northern Ohio will show how trees get turned into products, including Amish-made lumber and furniture. “We hope people find it an eye-opening experience,” said co-organizer Kathy Smith, a forestry expert at The Ohio State University. “A lot goes into that process.” From Forests to Furniture starts on Ohio State’s wooded Mansfield campus, where Smith and colleagues Amy Stone and Marne Titchenell, both also with the university, will give talks under the trees on owning woodlands, managing wildlife and dealing with the deadly emerald ash borer pest.
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Mar 9, 2015
Calling all mammals and mushrooms, birds and butterflies, the trees they call home, and their human landlords. The Ohio Woodland Stewards Program will hold its 2015 Ohio River Valley Woodland and Wildlife Workshop — aimed at knowing, growing and managing the life of a woods — from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 28 at the Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road in Cincinnati. The event is designed for but not limited to landowners from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
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May 22, 2014
As the emerald ash borer marches across Ohio, it leaves millions of dead ash trees -- and a cleanup challenge for workers and homeowners. That’s why the Ohio Woodland Stewards Program, part of Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES,) is co-sponsoring two upcoming workshops on chainsaw safety.
